Periga kishidai
pur-EYE-guhMki-SHEE-da-eye
Naumann, Brosch, & Wenczel, 2005

Periga kishidai male courtesy of Bernhard Wenczel.

DISTRIBUTION:

The Periga kishidai moth (wingspan: males: 57-68mm; females: larger // forewing length: males: 28-33.5mm; females: 39mm) flies in high altitude habitats (2400m to 2500m) in
Peru: Pasco.
Peru: Pasco: Oxapampa, -10.6375 , -75.2872.

Male: The forewing apex is slightly produced and pointed. The fw outer margin is slightly hollowed out just below the apex, and then is noticeably convex. The fe pml is straight, not curved outward near the apex, and it is more pre-apical than in most other similar species.

The fw cell markings are twined, dark brown subcircles with a lighter, almost white, center

The hindwing is not produced (not lobed) at the anal angle, and the single, small cell marking, also slightly lighter in its center, is diffuse and dark grey.

Overall ground colour is yellow-orange with heavy, darker orange suffusions and the usual yellow and grey patterns.

Periga kishidai male, 68mm, Pasco, Peru,
copyright Thibaud Decaens.

FLIGHT TIMES AND PREFERRED FOOD PLANTS:

Specimens have been collected by Bernhard Wenczel and Jose Boettger in April. This species is probably univoltine.

Larval hosts are unknown.

Periga kishidai male, 58mm, Pasco, Peru,
copyright Frank Meister, on my home computer only.

ECLOSION, SCENTING AND MATING:

Females extend a scent gland from the tip of the abdomen, and the night-flying males detect and track the airbourne pheromone plume with their well-developed antennae.

Periga kishidai male, 58mm, Pasco, Peru,
copyright Ron Brechlin, on my home computer only.

EGGS, LARVAE, COCOONS AND PUPAE:

Eggs are probably deposited in clusters on hostplant foliage.

Periga kishidai larvae are probably highly gregarious and have the urticating spines typical of larvae from the Subfamily Hemileucinae.

Larval Food Plants

It is hoped that this alphabetical listing followed by the common name of the foodplant will prove useful. The list is not exhaustive. Experimenting with closely related foodplants is worthwhile.

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The pronunciation of scientific names is troublesome for many. The "suggestion" at the top of the page is merely a suggestion. It is based on commonly accepted English pronunciation of Greek names and/or some fairly well accepted "rules" for latinized scientific names.

The suggested pronunciations, on this page and on other pages, are primarily put forward to assist those who hear with internal ears as they read.

There are many collectors from different countries whose intonations and accents would be different.

Some of the early describers/namers chose genus and species names indicating some character of the insect, but more often, they simply chose names from Greek or Roman mythology or history.

Those species names which end in "ensis" indicate a specimen locale, and those which end in "i", pronounced "eye", honour a contempory friend/collector/etc.

I do not know the source of the genus name "Periga" chosen by Walker in 1855.

The species name "kishidai" is honourific for a friend of the describers, Yasunori Kishida from Tokyo, Japan.

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